Grabnik (Stare Juchy)

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Grabnik (Poland)
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Grabnik
Basic data
State : Poland
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Stare Juchy
Geographic location : 53 ° 52 '  N , 22 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '13 "  N , 22 ° 11' 57"  E
Residents : 360 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-330
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : DW 656 : Ełk - Woszczele ↔ Zelki - Staświny (- Giżycko )
1917N: Klusy / DK 16 - Rogale → Grabnik
Rail route : Korsze – Białystok
train station: Woszczele
Next international airport : Danzig



Grabnik ( German  Grabnick ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Stare Juchy (Alt Jucha) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Grabnik War Memorial

Geographical location

Grabnik is located on the west bank of the Jezioro Grabnik ( German  Grabnick-See ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Ełk (Lyck) is located eleven kilometers to the south-east.

history

The year of foundation of the old church village Grabnick (before 1774 Grabnik , after 1785 Grabnicken ) is the year 1484, documented by a hand-held festival . The invasion of the Tartars in 1656/57 left terrible marks on death, capture and pillage. For a long time there was a Tatar arrow in the tower flag on the church.

The manor house was built in the 19th century, one storey and with a gable roof. The original entrance in the middle of the facade was bricked up. Some parts of the park have survived to this day. Gut Grabnick was already settled towards the end of the 19th century.

Between 1874 and 1945 grave Nick official residence was and thus its name to a District , which the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 the village had 834 inhabitants.

On February 14, 1915, Kaiser Wilhelm II was in Grabnick on the occasion of the winter battle at the Masurian Lakes . Near the front he found out about the war in the east against the Russians. An imperial stone reminded of the visit of the head of state at the point where the emperor had followed the battle with a telescope. It no longer exists today. But a military cemetery draws attention to the war.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Grabnick belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Grabnick, 540 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

The number of Grabnicks residents decreased in the first half of the 20th century to 757 in 1933 and 688 in 1939.

As a result of the war, Grabnick came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia . The village carries since then the Polish form of the name "Grabnik" and is now the location of a Schulz Office ( Polish Sołectwo ) within the rural community of Stare Juchy (Alt Jucha) in Powiat Ełcki (county elk ), before 1998 the Suwalki province since the Warmia and Mazury belong .

Grabnick District (1874–1945)

Originally ten villages were incorporated into the Grabnick district, and in the end, due to structural changes, eight villages:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name Remarks
Czerwonken (from 1932 :)
Rotbach		 Czerwonka
Grave nod Grabnik
Big Lepacken Ramecksfelde Lepaki Wielkie
Gusken Guzki
Small Lepacken Kleinramecksfelde Lepaki Małe Around 1893 incorporated into Groß Lepacken
Krolowolla (from 1926 :)
Königswalde		 Królowa Wola
Madeyken (Madeiken) Madejki
Malkiehnen Malkienen Małkinie
Moldavia Hopper Mołdzie
Woszc cells
1928–1938: Wos cells 		New paint Woszczele

On January 1, 1945, the Grabnick district was made up of the following places: Grabnick, Gusken, Königswalde, Malkienen, Mulden, Neumalken, Ramecksfelde and Rotbach.

Religions

Church building

There was a church in Grabnick as early as 1565. Because of its dilapidation it had to be replaced, which happened exactly after 300 years: in 1865 the field stone building was rebuilt on the old stone foundations and the lower part of the tower. Only a few pieces of the interior have been preserved. But probably a bell that was found in the bell cemetery in Hamburg and that rings today in the church on Altenberg near Heidenrod-Egenroth . In the years after 1945, the church was redesigned in accordance with the changed use in the Catholic liturgy. It was re-consecrated and dedicated to Our Lady of Częstochowa .

Parish

Evangelical

Until 1945 there was a Protestant parish in Grabnick, which built on the parish founded in the pre-Reformation period. The pastoral position was continuously occupied from 1565, and in 1925 the parish had a total of 2,090 parish members. The church patronage was ultimately the responsibility of the state authorities. The parish Grabnick was incorporated into the church district of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

The life of the Protestant parish in Grabnick came to a standstill after 1945 due to the flight and expulsion of the local population . The few living here today Protestant church members have joined the church in Elk connected, a filial community of the parish Pisz ( German  Johannesburg ) in the Diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

Before 1945 there were only a few Catholics in Grabnick. They belonged to the St. Adalbert Church in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia . After 1945 in the Grabnick region, as everywhere in Masuria, the settlement of Polish citizens, especially from eastern Poland, almost exclusively of Roman Catholic denominations, took place. They took over the village's previously evangelical church as their parish church and redesigned it inside. The today existing parish Grabnik is in the deanery Ełk - Św. Rodziny incorporated into the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . There is a branch church in Woszczele (Woszczellen , 1928 to 1938 Woszellen , 1938 to 1945 Neumalken) .

traffic

Grabnik is conveniently located on Voivodeship Road 656 , which connects the Ełk (Lyck) and Giżycko (Lötzen) regions . Coming from the south of Rogale (Rogallen) the side road 1917N ends in Grabnik.

The nearest train station is Woszczele (Woszczellen / Woszellen , Neumalken 1938 to 1945 ) on the Korsze – Białystok railway line .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 330
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Grabnick
  4. ↑ a b c Gutshaus von Grabnick
  5. ↑ a b c The Church of Grabnik - Grabnick
  6. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Grabnick District
  7. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  8. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 84
  9. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 124
  11. ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493